Zinio, a digital magazine and newsstand provider, is offering up a pretty enticing deal through the discount phenomenon Groupon. Jeanniey Mullen, global executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Zinio, took a chance with Groupon by offering $35 worth of subscriptions to any of the 4,300 titles available on Zinio for just $15. It [...]
Ideactive, a new marketing services division of Condé Nast, will offer custom-content creative in print, digital, video and mobile platforms; web design and development; social media marketing and community development; and app development and mobile marketing, among other services. Lou Cona, who is Condé’s Chief Marketing Officer, will oversee the new division, with Janine Silvera [...]
The U.S. Postal Service has had a year-to-date net loss of $1.13 billion, including a greater-than-expected loss of $1.1 billion for the third quarter. How this affects the magazine industry: ABM Washington Counsel David Straus says, “The way the CPI [Consumer Price Index] is going, you could be looking at periodicals rates going up 5 [...]
The Obama ‘magazine-cover- tour’ is continuing into September. First, the entire family will appear on the cover of Essence for an upbeat story by PBS newswoman Gwen Ifill. The current issue of Ebony features Michelle Obama by herself on the cover and the upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar will feature Tyra Banks dressed as the [...]
ASDA (subsidiary of Walmart) has called off some of their proposed changes to the distribution deals that they had in place with magazine publishers and distributors. The retail chain had received a great deal of negative feedback from the publishing community after ASDA’s magazine buyer had released a series of demands that were branded as “outrageous”. A source [...]
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has announced that it will reduce audit costs by almost half for some U.S. and Canadian newspapers, while freezing the costs of others. This comes as a result of the newspaper industry’s recent struggle to generate revenue. These reductions could be seen as early as November. Folio (July 20, 2008)
Mindworks Global Media employs 90+ to edit, design, layout pages and in some cases even report for media groups in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. The company, which manages outsourced work that journalists and copyeditors normally do, expects business to increase as cost-cutting in U.S. and European print media continues. BusinessWeek (July 8, [...]
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Compnay has been awarded a multi-year contract, in excess of $80 million, to produce a portion of F+W Publications, Inc. magazines and books, including Deer & Deer Hunting, Horticulture, Popular Woodworking, The Artist’s Magazine, HOW, Print, and I.D. F+W publishes approximately 750 books and more than 50 magazine titles annually. Business [...]
Vogue Living, the shelter spin-off of Vogue, published a spring issue and had planned to publish a fall issue. However, a company spokesperson announced that while a Spring 2009 issue was still under consideration, the fall issue would not go forward in the current ad climate. Women’s Wear Daily (July 1, 2008)
Printer Quebecor World Inc. has received court approval to sell its European operations (comprised of 17 facilities, employing some 3,500 people in six countries) to Hombergh/De Pundert Group (HHBV), a Netherlands based investment group for 133 million euros ($206.2 million). Direct Newsline (June 19, 2008)